From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and hymns whose lyrics are, as most southern gospel is, suffused with first-person struggles of ordinary Christians, striving after, struggling for, and faithfully pressing on toward greater assurance of belief...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...their best friend they called him. But 1966, you know, that was two years before they even admitted the first black student to study on this campus. They'd happily plant...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...dependent on stolen slave labor. Post-Reconstruction politics did more than rewrite the cause of the Civil War—it also remade the space of the South: Confederate memorial statues were erected, often...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); C. Topalov, "Scientific Urban Planning and the Ordering of Daily Life: The First 'War Housing' Experiment in the United States, 1917–1919,"...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...either the US or Mexican government began policing drugs in earnest, most smuggling was banal and low stakes. There were women who concealed lace, kid gloves, and silk hose under...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...One of the Sinners." In the study of religion, Charles Marsh, Paul Harvey, and a host of others have shown how Protestant institutions vitally aided and abetted white supremacy and...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...studies of and education about the archaeology, ecology, and geology of the island. In 1978, Sandy West sold Ossabaw to the state of Georgia to establish it as the state's...
Editors
...State University Barbara Ladd, Emory University Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State University Valerie Loichot, Emory University Caroline Maun, Wayne State University Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University Mark McKnight, University of...
Image Credits
...Solomon. Pink Triangle. Photograph by Flickr user Equality Michigan. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Poster from protest against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 16, 2011. Image...